News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events . . .
7th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum, Nottingham Law School
Being a Judge in Israel; Taking judging seriously, online guest lecture from Global South Network, University of Leicester
Roundtable on Forced Scam Labour and Human Trafficking, online
European Research Council Advanced Grant Webinar, online from the British Academy
Heritage in War and Peace IV: Human rights perspectives through past, present and future, University of Strathclyde: call for papers
2024
June
Contesting The Hostile Environment
Dates: 27–28 June 2024
Venue: Birkeck University of London
See website for details.
ALT Annual Seminar: Community and purpose in the law school
Dates: 26–27 June 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details.
Social Sciences for Democracy
Dates: 26–28 June 2024
Venue: Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
See website for details.
NCRM summer school: 'Large and Complex Social Surveys – New Horizons': open for applications
Dates: 26–28 June 2024
Venue: University of Edinburgh
See website for details. Applications are open for this free event, but places are limited.
Gender Equality Before the European Court of Human Rights
Date: 28 June 2024
Venue: UCL, London
See website for details.
British Academy: ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening Webinars
Dates: 28 June and 1 July 2024
Venue: online from the BA
See announcement for details.
July
Summer School: Law and technology
Dates: 1–5 July 2024
Venue: Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London
See website for details of this British Institute of International and Comparative Law event.
Agricultural Pesticides vs Food Sustainability: A need to produce ground-breaking knowledge from an interdisciplinary and dialoguing perspective
Dates: 3–4 July 2024
Venue: School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details.
British Legal History Conference 2024: Insiders and outsiders in the history of law
Dates: 3–6 July 2024
Venue: University of Bristol Law School
Booking is now open. See website for details.
European Research Council Advanced Grant Webinar
Date: 5 July 2024
Venue: online from the British Academy
See website for details.
IVR Congress 2024
Date: 7–12 July 2024
Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea
Theme: The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy
See website and poster for details.
Law’s Filmy Imaginations about the South Asian History of Queerness
Date: 8 July 2024
Venue: Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: Swethaa Ballakrishnen
See website for details.
Roundtable on Forced Scam Labour and Human Trafficking
Date: 9 July 2024
Venue: online Interpol event
See invitation and website for details.
Workshop for PhD candidates: Ius ad bellum and ius in bello
Date: 9 July 2024
Venue: Bristol Law School, UWE Bristol
See website for details. Organised by Research in Public and International Law (RIPIL). Deadline for the non-presenting attendee registration: 30 June 2024.
Leverhulme Seminar 3: The shadow effect of the rules of evidence on ADR
Date: 10 July 2024
Venue: Northumbria Law School, Newcastle
Guest speaker: Professor Henry Zhuhao Wang, Florida State University College of Law
See announcement for details.
The Next 100 Years of Women in the Law
Date: 11 July 2024
Venue: CMS Manchester
Chair: Dr Sally Penni MBE
See website for details.
British Academy Summer Showcase
Dates: 12–13 July 2024
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details.
Summer School: Public international law
Dates: 15–19 July 2024
Venue: BIICL, Russel Square, London, and online
See website for details of this British Institute of International and Comparative Law event.
'Law in an Age of Permacrisis': International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law Annual Round Table 2024
Dates: 16–17 July 2024
Venue: Keele University
See website for details.
Workshop: Modern Legal Records: Civil Justice & Society in England & Wales, 1840-1985
Date: 16 July 2024
Venue: National Archives, Richmond
See website for details.
International Legal Ethics Conference 2024
Dates: 17–19 July 2024
Venue: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Theme: Legal Professionals in a Digitalising World
See website for details.
German Association of Law and Economics 21st Meeting
Dates: 18–19 July 2024
Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany
See website for details. There is also an experimental workshop for junior scholars on 17 July which is open for registration.
4th Asian Legal History Conference
Dates: 25–26 July 2024
Venue: University of Law, Hue, Viet Nam
See announcement for details.
Is There Hope for Equality Law? 11th Annual Conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination
Dates: 26–28 July 2024
Venue: National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Bangalore, India
Hosted by NLSIU and The Oxford Human Rights Hub. See website for details.
August
World Congress of Philosophy 2024: SAFI Roundtable on women in legal philosophy
Dates: 1–8 August 2024
Venue: La Sapienza, Rome
See webpage for details.
Being a Judge in Israel; Taking judging seriously
Date: 25 August 2024
Venue: online guest lecture from Global South Network, University of Leicester
Guest speaker: Justice Ruth Ronnen, Supreme Court of Israel
See invitation and website for details.
Doing Oral Histories: Writing the Lives of Australia’s Environmental Lawyers
Date: 30 August 2024
Venue: UCL Laws, London
Speaker: Dr Susan Bartie, Australian National University
See invitation for details.
September
Society of Legal Scholars
Dates: 3–5 September 2024
Venue: University of Bristol
See website for details.
Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) Conference 2024 Representing Law
Dates: 3–6 September 2024
Venue: Bangor University, North Wales
See website.
Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International law, critique, and structural change
Dates: 3–7 September 2024
Venue: Kochi, Kerala, India
See website for details.
ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre’s Annual Conference: Reshaping the relationship between vulnerability and policing
Date: 5 September 2024
Venue: Cloth Hall Court, Quebec St, Leeds
See website for details.
Féminisme, droit et citoyenneté II/Feminism, Law and Citizenship II
Dates: 8–10 September 2024
Venue: University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
See announcement for details.
Transport: Bridging the gap between research evidence and political/public action
Date: 10 September 2024
Venue: AcSS online event
See website for details. This event is part of the AcSS Election 24: ideas for change based on social science evidence Project.
Consent: 5th SAFI Annual Conference
Dates: 10–12 September 2024
Venue: University of Glasgow
See website for details.
7th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum
Date: 12 September 2024
Venue: Nottingham Law School
See invitation and website for details.
MethodsCon: Futures: call for contributions
Dates: 12–13 September 2024
Venue: University of Manchester
See website for details.
Empirical Research Methods in Advancing Legal Knowledge Conference
Date: 17 September 2024
Venue: Northumbria Law School
See announcement for details.
Critical Legal Conference: Critical Nordic Colonial Legal Histories stream
Dates: 16–18 September 2024
Venue: Lund, Sweden
See announcement for details.
Human Rights in Migration Societies: Exploring the Intersection of Human Rights and Migration in Law, Politics, and Everyday Life
Dates: 18–20 September 2024
Venue: Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
See announcement and website for details.
Epistolary International Law Workshop
Date: 26 September 2024
Venue: LSE, London
See announcement for details.
Human Rights and Northern Ireland
Date: 27 September 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details.
October
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History
Dates: 24–26 October 2024
Venue: San Francisco, USA
See website for details.
November
International Law in the UK: A troubled relationship?: call for papers
Date: 8 November 2024
Venue: in-person at University of Worcester
See website for details. Call closes: 9 September 2024.
Histories of Sexuality in the Time of Crisis Workshop
Dates: 8–9 November 2024
Venue: Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
See website for details.
Ninth Annual Research and Orientation Workshop on Global Protection of Refugees and Migrants
Dates: 8–14 November 2024
Venue: Kolkata, India
See announcement for details.
Next 100 Years's Fifth Heilbron Lecture
Date: 19 November 2024
Venue: Art Workers' Guild, London
Speaker: Flora Page, Barrister
See website for details.
December
Heritage in War and Peace IV: Human rights perspectives through past, present and future: call for papers
Dates: 5–6 September 2024
Venue: University of Strathclyde
See website for details. Call for papers closes: 22 August 2024.
Common Law Forms in Civil Law Asia, Australian National University
Dates: 5–7 December 2024
Venue: Australian National University, Canberra
See announcement for details.
Second International Gender Studies In Turkey Conference: call for papers
Dates: 7–8 December 2024
Venue: Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
See website for details. Call closes: 1 August 2024.
Asian Law and Society Association Early Career/Junior Scholar Workshop
Date: 12 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
See announcement for details. This event immediately precedes the one below.
(Re-) Drawing Borders: When and where was the United Kingdom?
Dates: 12–14 December 2024
Venue: Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
See invitation for details. Call closes: 6 June 2024.
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting: call for papers and panels
Dates: 13–14 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Theme: Whose Law, Whose Voices? Constructing Legal Stories in Asia
See announcement for details. Call closes: 24 June 2024.
2025
January
Commission on Legal Pluralism: An international course on legal pluralism: call for applications
Dates: 8–11 January 2025
Venue: Universitas Indonesia Law School, Jakarta, Indonesia
See flyer for details. Closing date for applications: 10 June 2024.
Commission on Legal Pluralism: The Transformative Power of Legal Pluralism?: call for papers
Dates: 13–15 January 2025
Venue: Jakarta, Indonesia
See website for details. Call closes: 5 July 2024.
Current Legal Problems: The social side of fair process
Date: 23 January 2025
Venue: UCL, Endsleigh Gardens, London
Speaker: Professor Joe Tomlinson, University of York
See website for details.
February
2nd Conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society: call for panel proposals
Dates: 10–12 February 2025
Venue: Institute of Social Anthropology, UniS, University of Bern, Switzerland
See website for details. Call closes: 1 June 2024.
March
UK Immigration Legislation and a Hierarchy of Modern Slavery Victimhood
Date: 12 March 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Hull
Speaker: Dr Marija Jovanovic
See website for details.